ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator Empowers Digital Transformation and Integration of DevOps with the Mainframe

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Date : 07-Jul-2020
Location: Malaysia 

Organization:

ASG Technologies,an award-winning, industry-recognized and analyst-verified global software company providing the only integrated platform and flexible end-to-end solution for the information-powered enterprise.


Key Takeaways:

  • ASG Technologies unveiled the newest version of its workload automation and orchestration solution, ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator 4.1.3.
  • This release advances ASG’s commitment to arm IT infrastructure & operations leaders and teams to design, implement, schedule and automate business services running on IT applications and infrastructure.

 Offering:

The offering removed a barrier to scaling and extending DevOps further into IT infrastructure, including the mainframe, with new DevOps toolchain support.

Significant advances with ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator 4.1.3 include:

  • New privileged access management (PAM) support: New support provides integration with PAM leaders CyberArk and Hashicorp to retrieve credentials at runtime, mitigating access and security risks.
  • Secure authentication with OAuth2: Enhancements to ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator’s existing security support now include more secure interface support with external services including Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox and Google Drive.  
  • Integration with market-leading IT Service Management vendor ServiceNow: Streamlining problem ticketing and accelerating resolution, ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator integrates with ServiceNow to open incidents when automation steps fail or experience errors.
  • Support for leading student information system (SIS) Ellucian Banner: IT departments of higher education organizations can now take advantage of ASG’s leading business service automation and orchestration. ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator provides job and task automation support for Ellucian Banner.
  • DevOps service management integration with Jira: ASG’s integration with Jira enables DevOps teams to use their tooling of choice, Jira, for trouble ticket identification and resolution. ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator creates Jira requests when issues and errors in automations occur.
  • Software development lifecycle (SDLC) automation with Jenkins: Teams using Jenkins to schedule and sequence parts of their SDLC, such as test automation and release automation, can orchestrate those actions using ASG and simplify value streams.  

Spokepersons:

Jeff Cherrington, Vice President of Product Management for Systems Management at ASG,said,the offering empowers digital transformation.

Insights:

1.) What is Enterprise Orchestrator ?

Think of it as an orchestra with a single unit conductor controlling and managing a large ensemble of components from a centralized viewpoint.

The term orchestrator is usually used to describe centralization of provisioning, deploying, triggering, monitoring of automated processes.


2.) Sharing knowledge is so much easier when it is digital.


Best Practices:

  • Leverage on devOps toolchain for seamless end-to-end management.
  • Levarage on ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator for both the development toolchain orchestration and scheduling, and the run-time production instance workload automation, from a single platform. 

Editor's comments:

  • The ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator is a solution to help enterprise companies with in-house software developement and digital transformation projects, to achieve centralized automation on single platform and accelerate delivery time. 
  • Besides useful to automate and monitor processes in the development environment,the same set of solution can be applicable to production environments.

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